The Franklin Mint was an outfit that made objects that were glitzy and sold as collectible new made stuff like you see various crooks offering gold coins as a hedge against inflation. Franklin Mint is long gone and most of it's "collectibles" haven't appreciated much, if at all. Maybe if I...

I almost forgot about these I have hanging on the wall in cases. The dark case was official for the collection and the blond one not. They were knives issued by the Franklin Mint back during a Civil War era commemorative era. I bought one of them and then a lot of years went by and then went looking...

We were talking about collecting knives in emails and I told him I thought I posted about them here but can't find the post if I did. So.. for his amusement...the ones in the red velvet case are "collectible" in the more serious way. The ones in the paper box are flea market good luck kniv...

The EXII came out in 1973. It was really the tail end of the Spotmatic line and used, like the Spotmatic, the M42 screw mount lens. Some of those lenses were the best Pentax ever made. Today I used a 55mm F2 Super Takumar lens on this new to me camera. This camera has an aperture priority mode power...

Now that you mention it, I had one of those 2A Indian Enfield's in 7.62x51. I sold it.

I've got a 7.62x51mm Spanish Mauser. The one with the question out of the past that goes, is it safe to shoot .308 in the converted to Nato round from 7mm small action bolt action gun? That's as close as I have. I did fire a few rounds of .308 in it and lived to tell the tale. The Nato 7.62 NATO rou...

I hadn't noticed those Artificial Intelligence bullets with points on each end. The more stuff going artificial intelligence the dumber the world will get. I have noticed that the Google AI ap is crap. It will bring up stuff that has nothing to do with what you are looking for information on because...